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Season 2

15 episodes · Sep 20, 1978

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  • S2E1

    Langrishe Go Down

    Sep 20, 1978105m

    In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric thesis. Imogen Langrishe, the least repressed of the sisters, begins an affair with Otto. Imogen takes the love affair seriously, but Otto just enjoys the cheap lodging and the comfort of Imogen.

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    S2E2

    Fairies

    Sep 27, 197866m

    How could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?

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  • S2E3

    Fearless Frank

    Oct 4, 1978

    The outrageous – and not entirely reliable – memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.

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  • S2E4

    The Lost Boys: Part 1 – We Set Out to Be Wrecked

    Oct 11, 1978100m

    1897: A quiet afternoon in Kensington Gardens. A little boy in a red tam-o'-shanter realises he is being watched by a small man with a huge St. Bernard. The man is J. M. Barrie...

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  • S2E5

    The Lost Boys: Part 2 – Dark and Sinister Man

    Oct 18, 1978100m

    1906: Arthur is gravely ill. Sylvia turns more and more to Barrie for help. A wealthy man following the huge success of Peter Pan, Barrie is only too happy to respond.

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  • S2E6

    The Lost Boys: Part 3 – An Awfully Big Adventure

    Oct 25, 1978100m

    1913: Three years have passed since Sylvia's death. George is now a man and Michael, 13 years old. For the Llewelyn Davieses, childhood is at an end, and illusions are about to be destroyed.

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  • S2E7

    Return Fare

    Nov 1, 197889m

    A man adjusts to freedom after years incarcerated.

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  • S2E8

    Another Day

    Nov 22, 1978

    Abandoned by her husband, Eileen tries to make the best of bringing up her children in a rundown bed-sit. A man called George shows her attention, but others are suspicious of his motives.

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  • S2E9

    The Vanishing Army

    Nov 29, 197875m

    The promotion of an ambitious, decorated NCO is put in jeopardy when he marries an unconventional wife and faces the snobbery of his superiors and their families.

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  • S2E10

    Night People

    Dec 6, 1978

    A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in the early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a travelling salesman and an elderly couple who are going to Gretna Green to get married.

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  • S2E11

    Renoir, My Father

    Dec 13, 1978

    A dramatisation of the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his filmmaker son, Jean Renoir.

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  • S2E12

    On Giant's Shoulders

    Mar 28, 197990m

    A middle-aged childless couple on a remote farm adopt a Black boy with no limbs due to the effects of Thalidomide. They encounter a great deal of resistance and scepticism from their friends and neighbours.

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  • S2E13

    Stepping Out

    Apr 4, 1979

    A middle-aged woman who enjoys making lavish ballgowns wishes her daughter would visit more often.

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  • S2E14

    A Light That Shines

    Apr 11, 1979

    At a teaching Order, Conroy is asked to mentor promising student Stephen, who is feeling pressured.

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  • S2E15

    In England's Green and Pleasant Land

    May 16, 1979

    Authorities must decide if the repentance of a reformed convicted murderer is genuine so he can be prepared for release.

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